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Chapter Fifty

Penulis: Gesaree
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-04-19 18:04:09

Luca.

For the next few weeks, I started showing up.

Every Wednesday, I met her at Cedars. We sat in that freezing cold chemo ward, her hooked up to a machine and me sitting beside her with a thermos of ginger tea and crossword puzzles. It was awkward at first more silence than conversation, more effort than ease. But something kept pulling me back.

I think I just wanted to know her. Not the ghost of the woman who left, not the polished stranger from the gala, but her. The real version, vulnerable, tired, still stubborn as hell, and funny in these dry, biting ways that reminded me of how I used to be before all the walls went up.

We started talking. Really talking.

She told me about the years after she left. How she moved up the coast and worked at a bookstore. How she tried therapy but didn’t stick with it. How she'd go months without hearing her own voice except for muttering to her cat.

I told her about the first audition I ever went to. How I nearly puked from nerves. How the fir
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